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...fact, the loudest opposition to Thornburgh may come from some of those furthest to the right. Sen. Gordon Humphrey (R-N.H.), a staunch supporter of the pro-life movement, raised a number of questions about Thornburgh's stance on the issue of abortion...
Childs' mother was, and remains, a staunch member of Assemblies of God, and her maternal grandparents were both Assemblies missionaries. Childs and her three brothers "weren't allowed to listen to pop music or rock or even go to the movies. There was a lot I missed out on." There was a lot she made up for too, as well as a lot she probably could have done without. Her mother and father moved the family every year or so, from little towns in California's San Joaquin Valley to places in Arkansas and Oklahoma no bigger than a post...
...last week, 90 lawmakers were ready to vote yes. A group of Democratic Senators, miffed at Reagan's reinterpretation of the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, has proposed an amendment that would prohibit any future President from reinterpreting the INF accord. But the largest obstacle to speedy approval remained the staunch opposition of a group of right-wing Senators led by North Carolina Republican Jesse Helms. One of Helms' more imaginative objections: that Party General Secretary Gorbachev, because he is not head of state (technically, President Andrei Gromyko is), had no right to sign the treaty...
...They've always been very staunch supporters of organizers at Harvard," HUCTW organizer Marie Manna said of the City Council...
...notion that systematic efforts to improve the prowess of slaves by selective breeding have something to do with black athletic achievements is one of the most persistent and pernicious myths in America's overflowing collection of racist ideas. Historians as diverse as Ulrich B. Phillips, a staunch defender of the Confederacy, and Eugene Genovese, a Marxist, have convincingly shown that there was no widespread deliberate mating of slaves. This preposterous theory has nevertheless wormed its way into the collective consciousness through such classic works of pulp fiction as Mandingo. It is probably no coincidence that Kyle Onstott, creator of that...